I'm sure Tony Blair is absolutely thrilled with the timing of this disclosure.

Can someone please explain why anyone within our government would admit to ANY affiliation with them?
And I agree with Jazz...WHY are they killing Iranian soldiers?

"No wonder the whole world hates the U.S. - the only terrorism we will allow is that which supports our causes."

Umm...so we should be equal-time supporters of terror?

To Embarrassed Citizen:
Get over your moral vanity. This is war.

This is crazy! The US is involved in this? Just because we aren't *directly* funding this does not mean we aren't a part of this action. This administration supports terrorism and has CREATED more terrorists than were ever here on this earth. When will they learn that dealing with slime only results in horrors later. Didn't we arm Bin Laden to the hilt in the 80s? Yeah? and then he came back to bite the hand that fed him? Yep.. BTW, how's that search for Bin Laden going anyway? Still not concerned Mister Bush? YOU ARE PATHETIC.

Hey Blah,

Um, the USA had no relationship with OBL, he was not in Afghanistan at the time of the anti-Soviet insurgency, and the Taliban did not yet exist.

Embarrassed,

What, should we allow terrorism which does *not* support our cause? Why, to make it "fair?"

Maybe the part of the world that you believe "hates" the US does so in part because of misinformation that worked so well on Blah a few comments prior...

Incidents like this are reminders of the kind of government we really live under, I would imagine our founding father's felt the same way in 1776.

Let's see, the guy is a Taliban commander, drug dealer, car bomber, and Sunni terrorist who kills unarmed people in cold blood. What's not to love? I suppose we are shipping him stinger missiles as we speak, perhaps along with cartons of box cutters to open them with....

So, it's fine to support terrorism when it serves your own cause? Doesn't it make the "Global War on Terrorism" even more ridiculous, especially as counter-terrorism activities have proved to be far more deadly than terrorism itself?

Nice timing. Weird how these kinds of reports are rarely strung together in any coherent fashion. Perhaps some day ABC will investigate the links between the Pakistani Intel folks and the 9/11 hijackers. Don't hold you breath.

To those suffering from MES (Moral Equivalency Syndrome) like Kevin and Embarrassed Citizen, how about this: we'll stop supporting this guy if they'll stop supporting Hezbollah, Hamas, Iraq insurgency, etc.

Sound like a fair trade?

Then it'll all be sweetness and light.

Oh, Iran will have to declare an end to the war they've been waging on us for 30 years, but that should be no big deal. I'm sure that deep down, the mullahs really want to be good, good friends with us. All that "Death to America" talk is just talk.

Would someone explain to me WHY and HOW those idiots in the Whitehouse were selected in 2000 and then elected in 2004? I cannot believe that there are that many stupid people in the US, but I guess there are.

1952 - CIA Ousts the Democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran and installs the Shah, who kills hundreds of thousands of Iranians over the next 25 years. Research it.

And from this we are to draw the conclusions that the United States does not negotiate with terrorists? How can this country claim to be fighting terrorism, when it does all within it's power to keep terror alive -- albeit on someone else's soil.

Isn't this the same thing that KSM admitted to to get out of Gitmo? Are we 'supporting' terrorists or are we just plain terrorists?

We have once again legitimized terrorist tactics. We have become our own enemy. I feel like either picking up a carbine, or moving to Canada.

Jundullah (Army of God) is a militant Islamic organization that is based in Waziristan, Pakistan and affiliated with Al-Qaeda.

Is it not clear that the British and the Americans are collaborating in order to start w war with Iran -- hence the so-called "hostage" crisis. Agents provocateurs! This is insanity --and all so that the rich resources can be divided up among two greedy nations -- the same two greedy nations (especially Great Britain), who have tried again and again to get a major stronghold on the most resource-rich continent in the world!

the united states denies any DIRECT funding. iran contra?? deja vu

You can argue that the US is being unwise from a pragmatic point. And you can point out that this makes the Iranian taking of the 15 Brits more of a tit-for-tat. But as described in this story, killing "military officers [and] intelligence officers" in war is not terrorism. Killing soldiers, especially in a part of a country whose central government uses soldiers and killing to maintain undemocratic power and keep down a minority ethnic group, is war.

The justness or unjustness of the causes in the war is relevant to the decision of which side we would want to win, or even want to assist, but it is not relevant to whether the guerrillas are terrorists. Iran's calling them so is no more dispositive than Britain's calling them so relative to its colonies, or even Germany's relative to the French Resistance.

Of course, Iran's taking the 15 British sailors wasn't terrorism either, by most definitions. It was, however, an act of war, although Britain has not yet chosen to take it that way.

I dont know what else to think, no wonder we are hated everywhere. when are we gonna have a leadership that doesnt preach and drink wine?